Giving back

Fifa ambassador Pelé: joining the PR fight against Brazil's image of inequality and excess by handing a children's hospital a profit share from his new product – limited-edition £4,500 gold Pelé statutes, featuring diamonds made from the carbon in his hair.

• Among the lines from Pelé's diamond press launch: a question about the latest worker to die at a World Cup construction site. Pelé: "That's normal, the stuff of life. These things happen. What worries me is the airports not being finished. I've been travelling a lot, and it's chaos."

• Meanwhile: also giving back – fellow Fifa ambassador and ex-Brazil striker Ronaldo, agreeing a deal to rent his Rio apartment to Sepp for the six weeks of the World Cup, for a reported £404,000.

Party of the week

Fifa head of finance Julio Grondona, 82, celebrating 35 years of denying wrongdoing as head of Argentina's FA. Grondona's 2011 re-election speech: "In my years in office I've been charged more than Al Capone, and never once been punished … I'm all about peace, patience and balls."

Landmark moment

Football's fit and proper test, enhanced in 2010, undone by one legal challenge. Massimo Cellino's view on the risk of more fit and proper scrutiny: "Believe me I don't care … I don't want to be here if the Football League don't want me, but who are they anyway?"

Manager news

Last week's moves:

•Italy: Cagliari rehiring coach Ivo Pulga two months after sacking him. Cagliari director Nicola Salerno revealed in February how owner Cellino sacked Pulga "to send a clear signal to the group … But he has assured us: the upheaval is over."

•Bosnia: Ex-Sarajevo coach Robert Jarni, reflecting on last week's sacking by the club's owner Vincent Tan. "It was quite a surprise. A little more patience and we would have got there. Tan? I never even met him."

Clarifications of the week

•Finland: RoPS coach Juha Malinen, weighing up the negative press after he told newspaper Iltalehti: "Just a few years back RoPS had 13 black men. We've managed to put that completely behind us. We've recruited players with names that get pronounced correctly and the Finns know them." Malinen: "I get along with all nationalities."

•Brazil: Designer Sergio K on how critics "misunderstood" his World Cup T-shirt collection featuring false claims including "C Ronaldo is gay" and "Maradona is a fag". "This collection is in the irreverent vein of our brand."

The week in disputes

•Spain: Former Valencia president Juan Soler denying wrongdoing after being charged with attempting to kidnap successor Vicente Soriano in a row over an alleged debt. Soler denies hiring a kidnapper for €100,000. Soriano: "I'm calm."

• Chile: Colo Colo's Jason Silva, sorry after his celebration – taking a Universidad de Chile flag from the crowd, then kicking, stamping and spitting on it – ended in arrest. "It was an ugly night in jail, I was cold and hungry. I didn't think it through."

Zdravko's week

Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb owner Zdravko Mamic, assessing his public approval rating. "Everywhere I go I get insults, curses, threats. They shout 'we will kill you, we are cannibals we will eat you'. It's open season on Mamic. They hunt me like a boar."

Mihajlovic latest

Italy: Sampdoria coach Sinisa Mihajlovic continuing his run of cultured press conference allusions after last month's references to Dante and Shakespeare. New last week: "As Walt Disney once said, our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

Good news story

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan, three years after leaving Sunderland to join Al-Ain for the challenge, adding a Rolls Royce Phantom to his fleet of one Dodge Challenger, an Escalade, a Bentley, a BMW, an Infiniti, a Hummer, a Chrysler, a Lincoln Navigator and two Porsche Cayennes. Ghanaian media: "He's the first Ghana player to have one."

Faith: questioned

Paraguay: Guaraní player Jorge Benítez: celebrating a goal by displaying a T-shirt reading: "God is the ladder to success" – banned for five games and fined.

New man of the week

Brazil: Juventus-SC coach Celso Teixeira – denying he called a female official "hot" while being sent off. "I'd never be so dumb, I have no sexism. But I will say this, and it's not prejudice. If she was my daughter she wouldn't be wearing those shorts. Why must they be so tight?"

Best stand

Romania: Second tier Farul Constanta coach Stefan Nanu – reacting to his team's performance by going home after 75 minutes. "I couldn't bear it, I left in tears in my car. All I want is strong characters. These players should do the right thing: hand in their shirts and go."

Plus: love news

Italy: Sampdoria's Maxi López ready to face ex-teammate Mauro Icardi in today's game against Inter, five months after Icardi tweeted his love for López's wife Wanda Nara. "It will be an emotional day, but they all are. I will play it cool."